Mumbai Stock market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty tumbled in early trade on Thursday after a three-day rally following a sharp jump in crude oil prices and weak global trends. Moreover, unabated foreign fund outflows also dented market sentiments, analysts said. The 30-share BSE Sensex tanked 1,953.21 points, or 2.54 per cent, to 74,750.92 in…
New Delhi: The government has approved Rs 1,718.56 crore funding to Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) for procurement operations. The decision was taken by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “In a significant step towards strengthening farmer welfare and advancing the vision of Aatmanirbhar Bharat, the CCEA has approved…
New Delhi: With the LPG supply squeeze impacting hotels, businesses and household consumers through longer waiting periods and panic bookings, the Centre has asked states to expedite approvals for piped gas projects to enable faster rollout and ease pressure on cooking gas availability. As the war in West Asia, which blocked India’s access to almost…
On February 25, 2026, the CME Group’s Globex platform halted trading in metals and natural gas futures and options at 12:15 p.m. CT due to a reported technical issue. Natural gas reopened at 12:50 p.m. CT, but metals—including gold, silver, copper, and others—remained offline until 1:45 p.m. CT. The exchange described it as an isolated…
Upadhyayula Lakshman Rao In the ancient cadence of Vedic hymns, the seer Medhātithi raises his voice not in abstraction but in luminous precision. Each deity is invoked for a distinct cosmic function; each prayer is an alignment of human aspiration with universal rhythm. Day and night are not mere measures of time but sacred phases…
New Delhi: The commerce ministry is expected to announce certain support measures to help exporters deal with the West Asia crisis, Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal said on Monday. “Hopefully within this week…we will send you the detailed briefing on what are the steps we are taking in the Department of Commerce to support the exports…
New Delhi: The interim trade agreement between India and the US will be signed once the new global tariff architecture of America is in place, a senior government official said on Monday. “Because at the end of it, each country is doing a deal as a part of a package where one is at comparative…
New Delhi: Air India and Air India Express will operate 48 scheduled and non-scheduled flights to and from the Middle East on Monday. The two airlines will have their scheduled operations to Jeddah and Muscat, including a total of 10 flights between Indian cities and Jeddah, a release said. Air India will operate one return…
New Delhi: LPG refill bookings have declined to about 77 lakh from 88.8 lakh earlier, indicating some easing of panic buying, even as the government said there is no shortage of petrol, diesel or cooking gas, and supplies remain stable despite the West Asia conflict. In a daily update on the impact of the West…
New Delhi: Bypolls to five assembly seats in Goa, Karnataka, Nagaland, and Tripura will be held on April 9 and in another three constituencies of Gujarat and Maharashtra on April 23, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gynaesh Kumar announced on Sunday. Addressing a press conference for the announcement of the poll schedule, Kumar said the counting…
